Sign for Tokyo

[Ingvild Roald]

Hi Midori,

nice to hear form you. So the signs for Tokyo and 'east' are two different 
signs, then, not just a difference in the context and the mouth pattern? As 
for spelling, I think two straight arrows upwards is right, if that is what 
you feel you are doing. If you put in the downward arrow in between, this 
movement gets the same 'value' as the upwards movements - while if you leave 
it out, the downward is sort of understood to be neccessary for the second 
upward to be done, but it has no 'value' of itself

Ingvild




>From: midori at a.tsukuba-tech.ac.jp
>Reply-To: sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu
>To: sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu
>Subject: Re: [sw-l] Sign for Tokyo
>Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 01:46:12 +0900 (JST)
>
>Hello, Ingvild,
>
>I'm Masahiko's colleague, Midori.
>
>I think the sign for east is one straight up movement, both hands at the 
>same time. But for Tokyo, the movement should be repeated, namely, two 
>straight up movement. Should we write it with three arrows, with the middle 
>one reverse direction, or two parallel arrows in the same direction?
>
>Sorry for misspelling your name in the previous mail.
>
>Midori
>
>
>--- sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu ---
>
>
> >Hm...
> >
> >I read the right sign (the one from Northern Ireland) as the two hands 
>doing
> >oposite movements (left hand going diagonally up while right hand is is
> >going diagoanlly down, and vice versa)
> >
> >
> >Ingvild
> >
> >ps: the sign we were shown in Maastricht had one straight up movement, 
>both
> >hands at the same time
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >>From: "Valerie Sutton" <sutton at signwriting.org>
> >>Reply-To: sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu
> >>To: sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu
> >>Subject: Re: [sw-l] Sign for Tokyo
> >>Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 07:57:30 -0700
> >>
> >>SignWriting List
> >>August 11, 2005
> >>
> >>>Shane ƒeEhEorpa from Northern Ireland wrote:
> >>>That’s my sign for Tokyo  Ea bit of a deviation u may notice!
> >>
> >>Hello Shane and Midori!
> >>THANK YOU, Shane, for posting some SignWriting. You have made me very  
>very
> >>happy!
> >>
> >>And now I want to ask you both...Which sign is more accurate? The one  
>on
> >>the left, is writing movement twice up-diagonally, but the  emphasis is 
>on
> >>the up-up. The sign on the right is writing the same  movement, but 
>instead
> >>the emphasis is even...up-down-up...
> >>
> >>Left sign...up-up
> >>Right sign...up-down-up
> >>
> >>A different feeling to the movement...I would actually pronounce  
>(produce)
> >>them differently...
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>EƒV
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